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......A person, especially a child, who is mischievous in a likable or amusing way. "That described Grampa, all right, but there was only one person who ever called him that. We wondered why......." It's a Scamp's Life both transports and transforms its reader. Traveling back to not-so-ordinary everyday life of the 1930's and 40's, a loving Grandfather spins the tale of a young boy growing up in a small Maine town during the Great Depression. Sharing the hilarious antics of his nail-clipping, couch-loving, pet goat Bud to the emotional episode of almost losing a best friend during WWII, Scamp...

The common denominator of a growing number of hard decisions facing modern societies is the need to determine, "How safe is safe enough?" Nuclear power, recombinant DNA, food additives, and the DC-10 are just a few of the products of technological progress that raise this question. The authors begin by defining acceptable-risk problems and analyzing why they are so difficult to resolve, considering such issues as uncertainty about their definition, lack of relevant facts, conflicting and conflicted social values, and disagreements between technical experts and the lay public. Drawing on their...